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As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

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Julius Erving
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 22
Actor
Basketball Player
Businessman
Manhattan borough
New York City
Doctor J
Julius Winfield Erving II
Dr. J
The Doctor
J. W. Erving
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When handling the ball, I always would look for daylight, wherever there was daylight.
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And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.
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I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.
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I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.
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I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
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You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.
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Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.
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Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
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When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.
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Being a typical Pisces, I might have experienced mood shifts, but I don't remember any depression, or needing to do anything, or to have someone bring me out of being depressed.
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Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.
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I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.
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It's better to stay too long than to leave too soon.
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You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you.
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That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.
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There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened.
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When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think.
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I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
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I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.
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The first professional game that I ever played remains, to me, the most exciting moment of my professional career.
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